Today's Featured Books— Literary Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

Every night at midnight, former western movie star Dusty Bob pours two shot glasses of whiskey and settles in alone to watch a scratchy old copy of his greatest film, Rendezvous in Reno. Right after the action-packed shootout scene, his beautiful co-star and paramour, Olivia Del Monte, walks quietly into the room, downs one of the whiskeys in one shot, and re-enacts the melancholy saloon dance scene with Dusty Bob as it plays in flickering black and white on the screen. As the music fades, Olivia languidly pulls away from him and withdraws into the shadows until the next midnight showing. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

“Why doesn’t everyone believe in karma?” Lama Tashi repeated the question with a mischievous twinkle. “The answer is very simple.”

He gazed at where his students relaxed on their meditation cushions in the candle-lit room. “It’s because karma isn’t instant. If cause was followed immediately by effect, there would be no question, no doubt.”

A wave of recognition passed, palpably through the room. And along with it, a surge of possibilities. “Imagine if karma went instant?” said Anton. “How crazy would that be?” From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /

September 11th, 2001. What if you could see disaster before it struck - but no one believed you?

Forecast is a pulse-pounding speculative thriller that catapults you into the mind of Roland Bishop, a weatherman living in Jersey City in 2001, whose life becomes shattered by a freak lightning strike. From $1.99 – SHOP NOW /